Herb

At the 2020 census, 3,108 Americans bore the surname Herb — 9,915th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 96,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,108
Rank: 9,915th
How common: 1 in 96,200
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Herb described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Herb

Also a first name

Herb has been given to 2,007 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1947. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.